Hotel Grønland: Human use of caves and rock shelters in West Greenland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841716589)

This work is a study of rock shelter sites used by arctic hunter-gatherers of all periods in the specific physical landscape of continental climate-type tundra in the interior of Central West Greenland investigated by field-surveys from 1999-2002. Excavations alone do not reveal the full significance of these sites and the author includes a review of the ethnographic and ethno-historic sources which show the large variability in the use of caves, rock shelters and boulders: places for telling stories, homes for mythical beings, entrances to the underworld, and centres for ritual and 'magic'.

Author: Clemens Pasda
ISBN-10: 1841716588
ISBN-13: 9781841716589
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2004
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.26d